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But all this really does is prevent some google services from working. Why does that make it "no longer viable"?

I use both Firefox and Chromium on ppc64le because only Chromium has a working JIT compiler through IBM's V8 port. I don't use sync or any of Google's services, because I'm just not interested.

Talking about dropping Chromium entirely over it feels like either an overreaction or a political move to try and get Google to acquiesce.
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It's a long road ahead, but right now Tesla has orders of magnitudes of more real driverless miles driven, in more areas and conditions. All done safer than humans statistically. It's possible for someone else to win, but right now Waymo is certainly the underdog under any metric you could come up with EXCEPT that lidar is required in the short term. So it's makes sense that is his public stance.
> it's banned in the US

cite? Its banned in Iran.
But they are not telling us what went wrong...So we are in dark. I have shared details with One Googler who is willing to help out. Will keep you posted here
The BX30 in 7.90 before any country specific tax. But that is the 1tb price as the price per TB is discounted by volume (and you get more snapshots, etc.)
The process looks similar to a CNC machine replicating a predefined shape. Except that here the material is able to grow itself. In this case it's not surprising that a CNC machine always creates about the same shape from a rather amorphous material.
The whole field has been dominated by research, i.e. the wish to make simple things complicated (in order to publish papers) as opposed to engineering, i.e. making complicated things simple (in order to produce usable software efficiently). As a result the standards are horrendously - and needlessly - complicated. The few major practical outcomes like the schema.org, json-ld and the google annotation system, are results of engineering, not research. Alas, json-ld has also taken a turn towards hypercomplexities.
In most reasonable collapse scenarios I could imagine, energy isn't so much a technological concern as it might be a political concern. Slightly scarcer perhaps, but there's a ubiquity of old alternators, plenty of shit to burn, and I guarantee the extractive industries will be among the first to come online, if they ever went out in the first place, and can be coaxed to function in a degraded state without globalized supply chains or too much esoteric knowledge.

Computers are much more difficult to bring back: much of their manufacture and distribution is highly dependent on a globalized supply chain, which in turn is dependent on the security guarantees of an international order backed by military force. Many of their parts are proprietary by nature, and individual components can at their simplest require rare expertise in multiple niche fields of science before their production can even be considered.
Pretty much this, Postgres is the right option for pretty much everything you'll come across.
Maybe for its time it seemed like a good idea.. Like SOAP or manual features for image classification. Today, it's clear that languages and knowledge don't really work like that, and it's not practical to approach them this way. I've learned about the OWL and SPARQL 12 years ago, and it already felt like a very dated idea. But then who knows... Everybody have given up on NNs once too.
And a small Coil, who you've probably never heard of before, donated 40% of Google's/Microsoft's amount ($100k).

That's pennies to Google/Microsoft. For Coil.com on the other hand...

For the unaware, Coil is a subscription service that you pay a certain amount to, and that amount gets spread through websites you visit that have a WebMonetization tag in the <head> element:

<meta name="monetization" content="crypto-address-here">

Pretty cool initiative. My personal website earned a total of $1 from it so far.
If you believe that op played the game well, then he successfully took capital from less efficient companies and allocated it to new more efficient companies. This creates value.
We have nonpartisan security researchers, as well as election experts from both sides, who say the election was secure. No state is totally leaving it up to machines. There are paper ballots as well as "sanity checks" throughout the process.

The voting machines may have vulnerabilities, but there is bipartisan consensus that it wouldn't be possible to change election results without raising an alarm.

For one thing, you couldn't predict which counties/states to tamper with ahead of time.
Where else should Chromium have synced to? To fedora's sync servers? Why would fedora run those?

Your outrage seems a bit misplaced to me.

Chromium synching to google's servers is entirely what I expected, and it was always clear that it was doing it to me. I am unsure why anyone is surprised by this.
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What is the battery solution in use here?
Envelope. It allows you to add metadata if you want (e.g. request ID, cache date, response time, paging info, or anything else that's relevant).
I think it’s a harder play at new browsers being built on Chromium, rather than bare bones Chromium users. Take a look at Edge, Brave, Sidekick, Mighty, Browser Company. All being built on Chromium! Each platform now has to own their own identity service, making it harder for users to migrate.
it's ambiguous, because technically Mozilla could retain ownership of MDN but delegate maintenance to this new entity.
If you can change the reflectance/albedo of the asteroid the pressure of sunlight will push it into a slightly different orbit. That different orbit is one where it hits what you want it to hit.
A Raspberry Pi is cheap, but I would hardly call modern ARMv7 Cortex chips simple.

Neither of the 8080 and Z80 chips were considered as 'simple' for that era. And they were so horribly expensive (say about $800 bucks in today's money) that we were paranoid about zapping them with static electricity.

There were several projects using only standard TTL chips and making a usable computer, but they quickly were displaced by the 'CPU on a chip' when the 8080, Z80, 6800, 6502, 2650 and a bunch of other chips all came out. Eventually the wide selection was whittled down to pretty much just the 6502 (Apple) and the Z80 (The main bunch).

http://www.ljw.me.uk/educ8/

I suppose a good question is: What do you want to do with it?

Do you want to learn programming principles?

Do you want to learn programming a particular CPU?

Do you want to learn programming in machine language (assembly language) or a higher-level language (C, Java, Rust, Python)?

Do you have an embedded computer/hardware combo in mind?

And many other questions like those.

And of course, most of those 40-year-old CPUs are still available to play with, anyway. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KAjZbjPqnA&feature=youtu.be
> When I evaluated Backblaze, the amount of data that the client wrote to disk was almost identical to the amount of data that was backed up.

This is a common mistake. It is true that during the initial backup this is (close to) the case. Then for the 10 additional years you backup, Backblaze is responsible for a small percentage of total writes after the initial backup. Some journalists make this same mistake so you aren't alone. Backblaze shines when you evaluate it over the 10 year timeframe, it can look kind of heavy weight in the initial backup when we have to backup literally all of your data files.

> if you are concerned about data consistency, you’d be using file copies to create snapshots instead of something like VSS which is explicitly designed for this purpose.

VSS is only available on NTFS file systems. Backblaze works on NTFS, FAT32, XFS, Macintosh APFS, Macintosh OS Extended Journaled, etc, etc. As such, we write general code that works on all of those systems. We're a small outfit, with no VC funding, we survive ENTIRELY on our small staff programming funded ONLY by sales of our products, and therefore we have to be efficient with our programming time. Maybe as the years go by and we can hire more programmers we can optimize for specific filesystems as you suggest. NTFS results in close to 35% of our sales so it is an important sub-set of our customer base.

> the Backblaze client writes logs to disk constantly

Yes, we want to be able to debug any issues in the field. We extensively log what is going on. These logs have been very useful to helping debug customer issues when thing don't go perfectly right.

You seem to have some grudge against Backblaze and frankly seem a little angry. You follow all Backblaze posts, and throw shade on our solution at every opportunity, and you never accept any of the technical answers we post, you just ignore the answers. You post the same (really PROFOUNDLY incorrect) mis-information over and over again, no matter how many times we answer and explain what is going on. Yet you always use the same user id, so I honestly don't think you are a paid shill or anything like that. Is there something I can do to help you? Do you think we wronged you in some way? I'm honestly curious why you do this?

It is totally Ok if you don't want to answer.
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I don't understand the premise. Many of us were using distributed SQL databases 30 years ago.
TTML is also supported by pretty much every piece of m pptultimedia equipment out there including chromecast , which is the exact opposite of ASS which is supported by basically nothing.

The fansubbing community is so annoying with its insistence on terrible formats. The community has somehow standardized on 10bit hevc with ASS subtitles. That makes releases so hard to play.
Yeah, this sounds like a win to me, given how much data even Chromium sends back to Google
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Going from a short segment of DNA randomly popping into existence, capable of nothing but self-replication to living organisms, carrying a tremendous amount of intelligence, those are two very different things.

To make an analogy, what you describe would be only the electronic chips or the logic gates of a computer. There are a still the CPU, RAM, and the whole software stack from the OS that runs our bodies (and mind you, there is a different one for each species) to the yet unknown abstractions from which human general intelligence emerges.

I think people underestimate how difficult it is for all the above to get started by accident.
I've been a casual Linux user on a personal laptop for years, and the way I've used Chromium is always as a "test on Chrome" tool on web app projects. Firefox is the daily driver browser. In that sense, I don't lose out much by not having all the synchronization features etc. But I would lose out much by not having Chromium available at all.

A side point, the post mentions having to retry broken web sites in Chrome being a ritual for Firefox users -- I can't think of many instances where that has been the case over the years. In fact, in the past decade it has been rare for any web site to fail in one browser and work in another. I remember two distinct cases: 1) H2O Wireless's account management (and bill paying) which didn't work in Chrome, and their tech support actually advised to use Firefox at the time (which worked), 2) Web Skype in recent years, for a time, dropped support for Firefox but only by user agent sniffing -- I was in fact able to get it to work completely fine on Firefox by using a plugin that changed my user agent string to say Chrome.
Good enough code that works, at the right time, beats good architecture. Too many examples in computer science history.

Simple, clean code that works is the best way to express logical intent.

Eventually, everything compiles down to byte code. You can do it the easy way or the hard way.

Industry will use the most effective tool. Academics can experiment with high level concepts, but if it doesn't scale out, it won't be popular in the industry.
I agree, I felt like the first season was the most evocative of a different time, the early 80s office tech environment.

The second season felt like it had a more soap opera to it, so I stopped at the end of it. I got the sense from descriptions of the later seasons that this got worse. Found it odd the consensus where I looked was that the last two were the best and the 1st to be "tolerated".
I think OP's point was that Brazil has always had illegal structures for data exfiltration and so on...
There are probably hundreds of bookmark/profile/password syncing extensions out there, and most of them work cross-browser unlike Google's. Just let users pick whatever they want.
> Do the people who use Chromium really sign into their Google account? If that's the case, you can just as well use Chrome itself.

I really don't understand why this is so surprising, if not Google's server with a google account, where?

And yes, you could just as well use chrome, but Chromium is entirely open source, while Chrome is not. It may not matter to everyone, but it matters to some people. So yes you could get the same functionality from Chrome, but it has different non-functional characteristics which matter to some people.

> My assumption was that Chromium users would want a browser without all of Google's cruft.

The "cruft" like bookmark syncing, password syncing, etc, has to come from somewhere. Google was is good a place as any to me.
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I always do. Been working with rest api’s for 10 years. Mostly because front enders and other api consumers I work with like the standard response and because I can give details about the backend. I put everything into a response key but data would work.

I put in a few standard fields. Time which is utc to catch caching issues. Messages for useful messages such as DB down fell over to cache or some such. Success which is used to indicate if everything worked. Note I use http codes for failures but say something fell over to a backup this would be set to false. I also have timing which contains the time for backend calls to respond or other such processing times. This is helpful when someone says a call is slow, just view the response and you get an idea where the issue might be. Has saved me a few times when integrating with 3rd parties and allows for finger pointing that’s not at me.

An example below.

{
"success": true,
"messages": [],
"time": "2021-01-26T07:49:28.635248481Z",
"timing": [
{
"timeMillis": 0,
"source": "HealthCheck"
}
],
"response": {
"memUsage": "memoryusage::Alloc = 7025 MB::TotalAlloc = 82490487 MB::Sys = 17503 MB::tNumGC = 31354"
}
}
One could, but the Chromium sourcecode provided by Google is a quickly moving target. So your patch will need to be updated very often. Distro maintainers are already complaining about Chromium being a lot of work because of the rate of change and build breakage. A patch will make that worse.

Also, I would bet Google would do a few "neccessary" changes in the bookmark parts over the next releases, just to make your patch not work.
I'm not sure of any connection - but I grew up in Cornwall and we sometimes use 'Janner', which comes from "Cousin Jan", in the Southwest. The article briefly touches on Cousin Jan, but didn't link it to the word that's still in use today (means someone born near the sea, or someone from Plymouth).

I'm just thinking "Cousin Jack" is a very easy transformation from "Cousin Jan" if you're trying to 'decornishify' the word and pick a generic English sounding name. Could be why it became the common fib name people told their bosses when introducing other cornish people for employment? Maybe a stretch though, I'm just spitballing.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Janner
Who needs Yelp in Austin, anyway? Is Rudy's gone? How about Chuy's?
Absolutely, that's a great analogy. I've long realized that I need to be my own advocate for things like this.
Is there really a reason to run Chrome or Chromium? I'm running Firefox since forever and I can't remember the last time I've seen a "Runs in Chrome only" banner?

Why can't those Linux distributions just ship with Firefox? I don't get it.
The Nokia N810 was the best. Regarding the keyboard, it helped if wrapped your hand around the kickstand. Great for writing shell scripts while waiting at the DMV
Who is not letting them pick what they want? You were not forced to use Chrome's sync features, but I am not aware of any extensions that will replace the Chromium sync functionality entirely or even mostly. And even if it did, it is not nearly as integrated of an experience.
How hard would it be to make an open-source bookmarks server that supports the same API without needing keys from Google? Of course, somebody will have to run them but I imagine distributions or some orgs could? We're talking here about implementing bookmarks sync, with the API already known (since it's client is implemented in the open-source Chromium). I mean I'm sure it'd require some work, but no "writing a new OS from scratch" level of work, rather "implement a simple API" level of work. Am I missing anything here?
Yes of course. It is the principle of privacy. Most of the time, governments have far more power than such groups.

This power is ripe for abuse and power like this has been abused in the past in the US. Why would you think that it wouldn’t be abused again?

Example, what the FBI did in the 60s including to MLK.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–King_suicide_letter

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

Illegal surveillance against people deemed subversives. Taped MLK’s affairs. Sent it to his wife and him. Told him to commit suicide.

Another example: More recent history as revealed by Edward Snowden shows that the government basically recorded all phone calls and grabbed all Google data on you, etc...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden

Who is willing to invest this power in government? Apparently, for some ridiculous reason, you are more afraid of those Capitol Hill nut jobs than the CIA and FBI? You know the CIA that overthrows governments like that of Iran. You know the FBI that spies on sitting Presidents. Compare that to the nut jobs who organized publicly on Facebook and Twitter and decided to take selfie’s and posted to social media?

Would you be for or against this if Trump won a second term?
There’s a footprint on the moon that begs to differ.
It seems much easier to demonstrate repariability over "we are 100% sure that nothing in this product causes cancer or increases its risk".
Well, one could argue Chromium is now more compliant with the spirit of Free Software because it doesn't use Google's proprietary, closed, spying bookmark sync service anymore
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Singer foot pedal sewing machine style power for electronics would be one possibility. Of course those would have to be scavenged too given the lack of skilled blacksmiths these days.
They had four years to do something about this apparently pressing, urgent, critical threat to democracy.
Using Firefox Android, I occasionally do need to retry sites in Chrome but rarely, especially in the current 'Fenix' version. On the desktop however, the only site I've ever had to retry in chrome in years is the browser ssh client in the GCP console - you just get a blank window on Firefox.
After what happened with the US and diplomatic immunity of the women that murdered the kid, I'm not surprised that the UK is not willing to extend it to huge delegations coming in.

It's easier to control and administer on a per-country basis.
That state is not stable (in game theory sense) though.

At least on Android there's no real vendor lock-in so defecting from "unrepairable" phones will let you eat some portion of competition sales.
> and the web increasingly doesn’t work on Firefox

I have been using Firefox as my daily driver for years now and I can assure you the web works perfectly fine. I can't remember the last time I came across a website that was even slightly broken on Firefox and worked on Chrome.
If you have bursty bit errors on a link, erasure codes can correct them without a round trip while not adding latency in the case where a burst of errors didn't occur.

Having said that, I don't think this situation will apply to spacex. They probably won't get random bursts of errors. Noise levels will be very deterministic and can be calculated ahead of time by looking at what stars are "behind" the satellite.
$0.25 /GB is pretty expensive. I'm using Hetzner Storage Box [1] which has tonnes of connectivity options where 1TB is only 9.40€ (works out at 0.0094€ /GB)

[1] https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box
I think the author is painting with too broad a brush here, companies like Pagerduty, Datadog et al have done very well.

Yeah there are many me-too businesses in this space - just like any other, and they are probably doomed. I feel the author is being too harsh here.
Thank you for publishing that nice bit of history. I really enjoyed reading.
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But unlike the previous starlink sats, this one has lasers
That's really a good way of looking at it. I though it sounded like a lot of data, well, 600kb is a lot of textual data, but who knows what they have stuffed into the database.

I worked for an e-commerce site, with a few million customers, even more orders, data-duplication all over the place, and still we where using a perhaps a 200GB of database storage.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25886218
> tests for mandatory and optional libraries

I never understood the concept of "optional" library. Either your program requires a library or it doesn't. If it requires the library, the easiest thing to do is to assume that it is already installed and just link to it. In case it is not installed the compiler will fail with a very clear error message.

Say, your program is an editor of png files and it requires libpng. Thus in your code you will have

#include <libpng.h>

and in your makefile you will link your executable with -lpng. And that is all! This works in linux, bsd and macOS. What the fucking else do you need?
> Doesn't make sense to me. Why would anyone want to have their bookmarks managed by Google if privacy is their goal.

I'm pretty sure you can encrypt your synced bookmarks: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/165139?hl=en&visit_...

> With a passphrase, you can use Google's cloud to store and sync your Chrome data without letting Google read it. Your payment methods and addresses from Google Pay aren't encrypted by a passphrase.

And why exactly does usage of Chromium imply more of privacy goal than usage of Chrome?
That is a nuclear weapon that was Wikipedia says was in service from 1957-1966. Wiki also says that the first nuclear explosion occurred on July 16, 1945.

This means that the development of the weapon in question occurred sometime in the first 12 years after the first nuclear weapons were tested.

I think that it is safe to assume that this very old weapon design has only been approved on since the 1950s.
If the company has smart execs, it can stay high. Capital just became very cheap for GME, a good team can put it to use.